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species of Nees, which was based on Cuming's n. 1415, from the 

 Philippines (Kew Journ. Bot. ii. (1850), 102), as I have verified by 

 an inspection of the plant in the British Museum. The same plant 

 is named Danthonia liizoniensis by Steudel (Syn. Gram. 245). This 

 is an interesting addition to our grass-flora of a species which does 

 not appear to have been previously recorded from any locality 

 beside the original one. 



Sporobolus Wallichii Munro MS. in Herb. Kew (Wallich, 

 n. 3769 a). Apparently very tall ; glabrous ; leaf-blades very long, 

 narrow, involute-setaceous, with filiform ends ; sheaths glabrous, 

 striate, with a small tuft of white cilia at the mouth ; ligule very 

 short ; panicle long, 15-24 in., rather narrow, with very numerous 

 rather short slender flexuous branches ; spikelets numerous, small, 

 erect on delicate filiform pedicels ; lowest glume very small, very 

 obtuse, 2nd glume about twice as long, obtuse or acute, both mem- 

 branous, broad, not keeled, erose on margin of upper portion, 3rd 

 glume quite twice as long, narrow, acute, 4th glume similar, about 

 twice the length of the ripe seed. — Collected by the late W. Fergu- 

 son, early in 1886, somewhere between Trincomalie and Kantalai 

 Tank ; the specimens are indifferent, merely •' tops." I was inclined 

 to refer this to S. minutijiorus Link, and am indebted to Prof. Oliver 

 for referring it to Wallich's plant, and Munro's name, which is, I 

 suppose, now for the first time published. It differs from S. minuti- 

 jiorus in having spikelets almost twice as large, and longer and more 

 acute upper glumes. 



Eragrostis (Myriostachya) Wightiana Benth. (Leptochloa Nees in 

 Steud.). I collected this magnificent grass in abundance by the 

 sides of the tidal estuary of the Maha-weli Kiver at Koddi-ar, in 

 Trincomalie Bay, Aug. 1885. It forms a handsome reed 4 or 5 ft. 

 high, growing in large patches in the intervals of mangrove thicket, 

 and it is remarkable that so conspicuous a plant should not have 

 been previously recorded from the locality. In habit this is so 

 unlike any other Eragrostis {E. cyyiosuroides alone making some 

 approach toward it) that, taking into consideration also the awned 

 lower glumes unknown in any other species, Bentham's section 

 Myriostachya almost deserves generic standing. Mr. C. Curtis has 

 lately sent this grass from Penang ; hitherto it had, I believe, been 

 known only from the Soonderbun, below Calcutta. A rather 

 inadequate figure is given in Icones Plant, t. 1381 ; the panicle- 

 branches spread nearly horizontally, and not as drawn there from 

 dried specimens. 



Aspleniimi [Thanniojjteris) Grevillei Wall. I first saw this fern in 

 the garden of A. C. Lawrie. Esq., of Peradeniya, who assured me 

 that a native collector had brought it in from the jungle. We were 

 afterwards taken by this man to the locality, an old and overgrown 

 areca-palm plantation at Weligala, not far from Gampola, in the 

 Central Province, where the fern was growing in abundance. This 

 was in August, 1887 ; in the next month the same man guided the 

 Garden collectors to a second locality, between Matale and Watte- 

 gama, which appears to be quite similar in character to the other. 

 In both places the plant grows at the bases of the palms, among 



